SandTrout wrote...
A nation with a huge amount of territory to cover and 20 divisions of soldier might not be capable of responding properly to a relatively small nation that has only 10 divisions. Because the smaller nation is able to place a larger percentage on a single point quicker than the larger nation, the functional military power of the smaller nation could become superior to that of the larger one.
This analogy applies well to Humanity's position post-ME1. The elder Council Species have numerically superior fleets, but those fleets are diluted by the amount of systems that they must protect. Humanity, on the other hand, has only a couple dozen systems, allowing us significant abilities to dedicate larger portions of our fleet to the projection of power while the Council species must keep their fleets garrisoned near critical worlds.
This is a point I've brought up in many past iterations of this debate.
The Council fleets may be large, but their doctrine limits how far they can move. Their forces are tied up in garrisons where-as humanity deliberately avoids doing this by posting only very small forces to guard and the bulk remaining at critical junctions where they can respond immediately. This means that humanity's forces can strike much more quickly and much further than anyone else's. Our military is way more efficient.
Another thing to remember about the turians is that their military isn't just their fleet. It is their army too which would be very large. Humanity avoids putting much emphasis on a ground army since it prefers decisve fleet action. So again, our military, despite being smaller, can do its job as well as the turian equivalent because it is more efficient in its design and doctrine.
Regarding the Destiny Ascesion... it may be a powerful ship, but the question remains as to whether or not the Council is willing to actually put it into combat. At the Battle of the Citadel it was just a glorified escape pod. It never had any intention of participating in the battle. That is what made it useless.
Considering that the loss of the Destiny Ascension winds up prompting the asari to pull out of their military agreements completely one wonders if they'd even be willing to risk the ship in a real fight. After all, in an actual battle the DA might be destroyed. Would the outcome be any different this time or would the asari just give up their military anyway? The DA is also said to possess as much firepower as the rest of the asari fleet combined so losing it is like losing half of their forces.
The Destiny Ascension is perhaps too valuable for its owners to want to put in harms way. That makes it useless.
Regarding the OP's excerpt from
Ascension. I agree with others who say it is not very realistic or believable. I feel the same way about humanity's rise in general. However we can't throw something out of canon just be we don't like it. It is true, like it or not. The best move then is to try and figure out what the circumstances would need to be for it to make sense.
Towards that end I would wager that the Council fleets guarding the Citadel and other relays were larger than they appeared. They'd have also been mostly turian seeing as the turians made up the majority share of Council forces. Many of these fleets in their entirety may have been wiped out before Sovereign and his geth reached the Citadel. After all, no warning came but the enemy got through anyway.
So off-screen the Council's losses may have been very severe. They might not have lost very many or any dreadnoughts (other than the DA), but without lots of cruisers and frigates to back them up those dreadnoughts aren't very useful. This may have left the turian military with teeth... but no jaw to give them any biting power.
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